User talk:Jackmacro
Welcome Jackmacro!
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{{My sandbox}} on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.Sincerely, – MrX 18:10, 6 September 2012 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
September 2012
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Hello, Jackmacro. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Gary A. Klein, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.
All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.
If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:
- Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
- Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
- Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
- Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.
Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 17:50, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Gary Klein
[edit]Perhaps you saw it already, but someone's replied to your questions at the Help Desk. You ask about the "This article needs sources" box — this is not a malfunctioning automated message. Such a box is produced by a template known as Template:No footnotes; as long as the code {{No footnotes|date=February 2008}} is present on the article (it's since been removed, by the way), you can have a million references, but the box will still appear. One removes the message simply by removing the code, which is appropriate after you've added sources, but which shouldn't be done just randomly; in this case, there wouldn't have been anything wrong if you'd removed it. Nyttend (talk) 17:53, 11 September 2012 (UTC)